Monday, December 14, 2015
Below please find a curated list of the digital tools I am currently recommending to people when they come to me with particular humanities-based tasks that they'd like to accomplish.
Text Processing
- Inform7 (http://inform7.com/)
- Inklewriter (http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/)
- Scalar (http://scalar.usc.edu)
- Twine (http://twinery.org/)
- Voyant Tools (http://docs.voyant-tools.org/)
Data Visualization
- Easelly (http://www.easel.ly/)
- Excel (you know the one)
- Picktochart (http://piktochart.com/)
- Plotly (https://plot.ly)
- RAW (https://densitydesign.org/research/raw/)
Blank Slates
- newhive (https://newhive.com/)
- Prezi (https://prezi.com/)
Time and Place
- ArcGIS (https://www.arcgis.com/home/)
- CartoDB (https://cartodb.com/)
- Google Earth (https://www.google.com/earth/)
- HistoryPin (https://www.historypin.org/)
- Nodegoat (http://nodegoat.net/)
- Story Maps (http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/)
- Tiki-Toki (http://www.tiki-toki.com/)
- Timeline JS (http://timeline.knightlab.com/)
- TimeMapper (http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/)
Data FitnessTM (Matt Burton)
- Open Refine (http://openrefine.org/)
Time-Based Media
- Audacity (http://audacityteam.org/)
- PowToon (http://www.powtoon.com/)
- SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/)
- Weavly (http://weavly.org/)
- WeVideo (https://www.wevideo.com/)
- Wideo (http://wideo.co/en/)
Still-Image-Based
- Annotorious (https://recogito.github.io/annotorious/)
- ImagePlot (http://lab.softwarestudies.com/p/imageplot.html)
- Skitch (https://evernote.com/skitch/)
Text Annotation
- Annotation Studio (http://www.annotationstudio.org/)
- Acclaim (http://www.getacclaim.com/)
- CommentPress Core (https://wordpress.org/plugins/commentpress-core/)
- History Genius (http://history.genius.com/)
- HistoryPin (https://www.historypin.org/)
- Lit Genius (http://lit.genius.com/)
App Creation
- iAd Producer (https://developer.apple.com/iad/iad-producer/ See also: http://www.lindadong.com/blog/prototyping-with-iad-producer)]
- MIT App Inventor 2 (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/get-started?)
- PhoneGap (http://phonegap.com/)
HTML Creation
- Mozilla Thimble (http://thimble.mozilla.org)
Network Analysis
- Cytoscape (http://www.cytoscape.org/ worthwhile tutorial here: http://ebeshero.github.io/thalaba/cytosc.html)
- Gephi (https://gephi.org/ worthwhile tutorial here: http://www.martingrandjean.ch/gephi-introduction/)
Another nice, not ovewhelming, list is found here from the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative: http://digitalhumanities.unc.edu/resources/tools/